Hi Everyone, We just wanted to say Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all, and a big thank you to all of our customers for supporting what we believe is a very important product for families today. This year we will be releasing Kibosh 2.0, another step closer to the perfect Parental Control solution. We’ll be introducing a new Gigabit Wireless AC router, a new UI, a new location and app usage monitor, an improved mobile solution (unlike…
Amazon makes spending money easy…perhaps too easy, and before you know it you’ve spent hundreds to thousands of dollars buying books, music and videos on demand. All of this content is locked in the Amazon system, so even though you ‘own it’, in reality Amazon does. They dictate if / when you get access, and they know when and how often you do access it. Besides the obvious privacy issues, this isn’t such a bad thing per say, until either…
There are two essentials pieces to a clean (no ads, no porn), and safe (no malware) Internet browsing experience: Kibosh Filter Zero Internet pornography Images / videos always safe Bad websites disappeared incognito always safe Malware & Phishing protection uBlock Origin This is the only ad-blocker you need. It is available as an extension for all browsers. Recommended browser(s): As of this post I use Brave as my primary browser (PC & Mobile). I do not use FireFox anymore,…
How to protect yourself and your company network from Ransomeware. …or how I laugh in the face of scrip kiddies! I’ve been building, and managing networks of 75 – 150 user, multi-site, primarily Windows based corporate networks for about twenty years, plus my work with Kibosh. I keep a tight reign over the data under my care, but even so I’ve been hit with a few malware / ransomeware attacks over the years. I think that no matter how tight…
Good news! DuckDuckGo.com has been added to our list of SafeSearch enforced search engines: Google Bing DuckDuckGo Info This means that, for all Kibosh customers, DuckDuckGo.com will always be in Safe mode (it will never display pornographic websites / images, or even allow the searching for said content). No matter what device, no matter what browser (Chrome, FireFox, Safari, etc). Same goes for Bing, Google, and Info. This is a big deal because DDG is right behind Google as the…
Couple of items to be aware of: There are no keyloggers that work on iPhones or iPads, so don’t fall for the slick websites that tell you otherwise. There are no free solutions to parental controls. There are no easy ‘point and click’ solutions to Internet security. Do not fall for these phishing tactics. Example sites trying to trick you into installing something: https://ikeymonitor.com/top-keylogger-for-iphone https://www.spyzie.com NOTE: Never trust a website selling an app, always double-check the reviews of an…
It’s no secret to parents that Hollywood has, in steadily increasing levels, laced their movies with profanity, graphic violence, nudity, drug use, and adult-oriented content (i.e., the bad stuff). See a need, fill a need. Companies like ClearPlay, CleanFlicks, and VidAngel have arisen to address the issue of family safe movie watching, and have, using technologies that have evolved over the years (to avoid Hollywood lawsuits), given parents a way to watch mainstream movies with their families, without all that…
Disney has, since around 2016, muscled it’s way into the Parental Control (P.C.) market with their Circle product. They have unlimited funds, a global marketing empire, and have put ads for this product everywhere. Disney Circle is sold in virtually every retail channel. I’ve helped many parents remotely configure their routers, and from time to time have been presented with a Disney Circle ad when trying to log into Netgear routers! The marketing is slick, and the product is sold…
We like the Firefox browser at Kibosh because it’s the only popular browser that – currently – 1) offers built in tracking protection (new, see below), 2) does not operate for profit (currently), and 3) does not collect, and save user data (unlike Chrome). The latest FF (v63) adds protection from web fingerprinting technologies and also web mining scripts. Mining scrips are how hackers use your computer resources (RAM/CPU/GPU) to mine for bitcoin (diabolical, but clever). In regards to #1 –…
If you would like to know exactly what’s in a movie try PluggedIn.com Plugged In will tell you how much of the following content is in a movie / game: Positive Elements Spiritual Content Sexual Content Cleavage Underwear Kisses Nudity Sexual situations Violent Content Crude or Profane Language How many, and what was said. Drug and Alcohol Content Plugged In Online is a Focus on the Family publication designed to shine a light on the world of popular entertainment while giving…